Lately I've been using youtube-dl to grab videos from youtube, then mplayer to play them/mencoder to reencode them. I'm using the latest version of mplayer, don't remember what that is off the top of my head, and the full win32codecs package. On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:32:45PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > I haven't figured out how to play shockwave swf files on > linux, but this weekend I discovered an online converter > for flash video flv files. I have been ripping a bunch of > great music from youtube into mp3 using this site: > > http://vixy.net/ > > It seems that most flash files are FLV rather than SWF > these days anyways. I have adobe flash player playing > FLV in opera and firefox as streams, but that vixy site > is a quick way to capture just the audio as mp3 or the > video as MP4, MOV, or even 3GP for phones. > > Linux multimedia has come a long way in recent years. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs... It was very silly. -- Matt Welsh
